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Blue Chip Vacations was founded in 2000 as a provider of luxury self-catering holiday accommodation in and around The English Riviera in South Devon.
Success
Over the next few years, the company grew quickly and now offers over 600 properties across Devon and Cornwall, from traditional cottages to luxury town houses, converted Victorian villas to modern apartments. Blue Chip Vacation properties are characterised by luxury fittings, sea, river or countryside views, en-suite bathrooms and excellent locations. The majority of our properties are 4 or 5 star rated by Visit Britain, the official rating organisation for UK accommodation.
Blue Chip Vacations have won many awards for their marketing and service.
Customer service
Blue Chip Vacations pride themselves in outstanding levels of customer service, both before and during a guest’s holiday. Staff members of the booking department visit every property in the portfolio regularly and are well informed to answer questions and help customers choose the best property to meet their holiday needs.
As a small, family run company, Blue Chip Vacations are large enough to cope, yet small enough to care. The booking staff have developed many relationships with both new and returning visitors over the years. If you are looking to make your property available for holiday lets, or are considering buying a property for holiday lets, click here.
Company number: 04159187
For more information about our company and our company polices, please click on a link in the navigation to the left or below.
Green Policy
At Blue Chip Vacations we are committed to providing high quality accommodation in the South West in the most environmentally sustainable manner we can. We are very proud to have been awarded the Silver GTBS award. The GTBS is the leading sustainable tourism certification scheme in the UK, with over 1400 members. Businesses are assessed against a rigorous set of criteria covering a range of areas like energy and water efficiency, waste management, biodiversity and more.
For more information on GTBS please see www.green-business.co.uk
In addition to achieving our GTBS award Blue Chip Vacations are working closely with the World Land Trust through whom we have offset the unavoidable carbon emissions produced by our head office. We are also offering guests the opportunity to offset the carbon emissions associated with an average Blue Chip Vacation. The offset addresses the electricity use (based on 4 people sharing a holiday home for one week) and the travel to and from the holiday home in an average family car. All donations are passed to the World Land Trust who use the funds to deliver offsets through restoration ecology projects, which restore and protect areas of threatened tropical forest, helping to conserve endangered wildlife.
If you would like more information on the World Land Trust please see www.worldlandtrust.org or www.carbonbalanced.org
GREEN POLICY
As part of our commitment to provide high quality accommodation in the South West in the most environmentally sustainable manner we aim to ensure that we have good environmental practice in all aspects of our business; that we will meet the minimum requirements set by environmental law and fulfill our legal duty of care requirements for waste disposal. We aim to minimise the harmful effects and maximise the beneficial influences of all aspects of our business.
In order to do this there are a number of measures we seek to undertake, including:
- Minimising our office waste through recycling, reusing and reducing waste.
- Monitoring the use of natural resources within head office to ensure these are kept as low as possible and to detect leaks at the earliest opportunity.
- Encouraging our guests to use public transport to travel to the South West and/or use local public transport during their stay.
- Encouraging staff to use public transport, walk or car share for the purposes of commuting and business meetings where feasible.
- Purchasing from local and/or fair trade companies wherever possible.
- Using only environmentally sensitive products in the cleaning of our head office and encouraging our owners to use these in the cleaning and preparation of properties.
- Sending all correspondence for bookings via email where possible.
- Providing recycling facilities for paper and glass in all of our properties where recycling collections are available.
- Offering guests who no longer require our brochure the facility to send this back to us for us to recycle or reuse.
- On arrival, providing guests with information on what they can do to help.
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